Attaching device



(No Model.)

L. O. DILLON.

ATTAGHING DEVICE.

No. 593,084 Patented Nov 2,1897.

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LEVIN G. DILLON, OF BROOKLYN, NEXV YORK- ATTACHIN G DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 593,084, dated November 2, 1897.

Application filed May 6, 1897 Serial No. 635,377. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEVIN O. DILLON, of

Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Attaching Devices, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for attaching labels and postagestamps and sealing envelops and the application of mucilage or other adhesive; and the object of my invention is to provide a device for this purpose that is simple in construction and therefore not liable to get out of order, comparatively cheap, and by the use of which the disagreeable process of dampening postage-stamps or other gummed surfaces with the tongue is avoided.

I will describe an attaching device embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is an elevation of an attaching device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a partial elevation and partial section thereof; and Fig. 3 is a side elevation, drawn on an enlarged scale, of a valve employed and a spring for moving the valve into its seat.

The device comprises a container 1 for the liquid employed. This container is made in the form of a bottle and may consist of any desired material. It is preferably made with a flat bottom 2, with straight edges 3. The object in providing the device with a fiat bottom is so that the same maybe pressed down evenly upon all portions of a postage-stamp to cause the stamp to adhere to an envelop, and the object of the straight edges is to provide a cutter for separating the stamps, or, in other words, when holding a stamp down upon an envelop one of the straight edges will be engaged along the perforations between adjacent stamps, and then the loose stamps may be readily torn off against this straight edge.

Mounted on the container 1 is a dischargecap 4, which is made removable from the container. As here shown, the cap has a screwthreaded portion 5 to engage an exterior thread on the neck of the container. The. upper portion of the cap is substantially wedgeshapedthat is, its opposite side walls are inclined upward or inward-and at the apex a longitudinal slot 6 is formed. The walls of this slot 6 form a seatforaplug-valve 7. This plug-valve is also wedge-shaped, and when in closing position its outer end will be projected through the slot 6 and beyond the end of the body. The surfaces of the valve engaging with the walls of the slot will efiectually close the same and thus prevent leakage of the liquid.

The valve '7 is held yieldingly in its seat by means of a spring, here shown as a conicallycoiled spring 8, having its upper portion engaged around a lug 9, extended downward from the bottom of the valve 7. The lower portion of the spring may rest on any suitable support. It may conveniently rest on the end of the neck of the bottle, as indicated in the drawings.

In use, when it is desired to moisten stamps, the gummed surfaces of envelops, or the like, the container will be inverted and the end of the valve pressed slightly against the gummed surface to be moistened. This pressure will force the valve sufficiently inward to allow for a discharge of liquidsuch, for instance, as waterand thenthe device will be drawn across the gumnied surfaces. Upon relieving the pressure of course the spring will return the valve to its seat.

By varying the angle of movement of the device any desired surface can be moistened within the limits of the width and thickness of the valve.

WVhen the device is used for applying mucilage, the operation will be the same, the container of course being provided with mucilage instead of water.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- 1. An attaching device, comprising a container for liquid, a wedge-shaped cap thereon having a slot along its apex, the walls of said slot forming a seat for a valve, a plugvalve having tapered sides and movable through the slot, and a spring for holding the plug-valve yieldingly in its seat, substantially as specified.

tle, a tapered cap having a screw-threaded I portion to engage a screw-thread on the neck of the container, the tapering walls of said cap terminating in a slot, a Wedge-shaped valve movable in said slot, and a spiral spring engaging atits upper end with a lug on the valve and having its lower end engaged with the end of the neck of the container, substantially as specified. I

' LEVIN C. DILLON.

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O. R. FERGUSON, J NO. M; BITTER. 

